US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Sept. 29 for "Reusable separation system for rocket fairing and payload" (Washington, Wisconsin, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,040, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Reusable separation system for rocket fairing and payload" was invented by Adam M. Wuerl (Seattle), Joseph Paul Atkinson (Melbourne, Fla.), Todd James Buchholz (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and David Alan Degenhardt (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separation system for a rocket having a payload release assembly and a fairing release assembly. Release devices secure and then separate the payload and fairing from the rocket. The release devices have rotatable bolts that retract. The release devices are cooled to survive reentry and may then be ...